bearnteam
Appearance
Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From bearn (“child”) + tēam (“family, offspring”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bearntēam m
- a succession of children; issue, posterity
- progeny, offspring
- childbearing, procreation
Declension
[edit]Strong a-stem:
singular | plural | |
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nominative | bearntēam | bearntēamas |
accusative | bearntēam | bearntēamas |
genitive | bearntēames | bearntēama |
dative | bearntēame | bearntēamum |
Descendants
[edit]- Middle English: barntem
- English: bairn-team
- Scots: bairn-time (influenced by time)
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “bearntēam”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.